A set of sonnets based on the solar system’s planets, but from an old-fashioned Science Fiction point of view, when Venus and Mars were considered inhabitable. Think Edgar Rice Burroughs. Further information is in the notes section. You can read each poem in order, or individually. Navigation will take you through in order, or you can pick out the individuals on this page.

• 1. The View From Space: ‘Twixt Earth And Moon
• 2. Mars: Watchers In The Desert
• 3. Venus: The Falling Of Eternal Rains
• 4. Jupiter: Mountains In The Sky
• 5. Mercury: Summer Days, Winter Nights
• 6. Saturn: The Infinite Halo
• 7. Uranus: The Sun A Distant Star
• 8. Neptune: Hurricanes In The Ocean Of Air
• 9. Pluto: The Edge Of The Endless Sea